Good Housekeeping has revealed its “tried and tested” guide of 2016 Christmas food – and you won’t have to spend a fortune to impress your guests. This year the taste testers awarded the title of Britain’s best mince pie to budget brand Iceland. At £1.50 for a pack of six, the pies beat 24 other brands…

The saying “money can’t buy you happiness” may really be true. Having a loving relationship and good mental health have a larger impact on our happiness than money, new research suggests. According to researchers at the London School of Economics, eliminating mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety from the population would reduce unhappiness…

Charities are urging women not to fear announcing their pregnancy before the 12 week scan, after Tessa Dunlop spoke out about how damaging the “firmly engrained silence” can be. The BBC presenter revealed she had suffered a miscarriage when she was “more than three months pregnant”. “All too often beyond the congratulations of a new…

When Harry Styles first revealed he was cutting off his glorious mane, some people reacted a bit like this… Not surprising when there are entire fan pages dedicated to Styles’ man bun. But, really, you can’t be mad because it’s all for a good cause. The One Direction star’s grand haircut plans are all so…

We’ve all been there: you’re sat opposite your friend, detailing your latest life woes and then they do the unthinkable… They pull their phone out and start tapping away at the screen like something possessed. Here’s what you’d like to say to them (but probably won’t). “If you don’t stop checking your Whatsapp while I’m…

A new cancer trial will look into how lifestyle choices such as diet and fitness can help prevent the disease from returning. The trial will explore how weight loss is associated with breast cancer recurrence. It’s already known that being overweight contributes to the development of 11 different cancers. However researchers also believe it can affect how…

Female wolf spiders make for discerning mates. If they aren’t satisfied by the end of a sex session, they eat their partners alive. That might explain – tangentially – why Matthew Persons, an American biology professor, kept finding the poisonous spiders having threesomes in his garden. “By the third time I saw it, it’s like,…

A student has lost more than 17 stone in just nine months after starring in a Channel 4 show. James Dunn, from Liverpool, said “ridiculous portions” of junk food and lack of exercise saw him reach 32 stone by his mid 20s. The 28-year-old claimed he knew he had to act when he was unable…

‘Stranger Things’ propelled Winona Ryder back into the Hollywood limelight this summer, but the actress’ outfits have been a firm staple on fashion blogs ever since the internet discovered Tumblr. Her roles in cult 80s and 90s movies ‘Beetlejuice’, ‘Heathers’ and ‘Edward Scissorhands’ meant Ryder was still a pop culture icon decades later. Not to…

As co-founder of Decoded, Kathryn Parsons’ working day is inundated with tech, which was why it came as a shock when she openly admitted to coming off email. Her multi-award winning company, founded in March 2011, went from a London start-up to the infamous place to learn to code in just one day. As business…